Anthony Doerr Quotes

Exactly 5,126 attempts to make the first bagless vacuum cleaner were failures-some catastrophic disappointments, some minor defects. It took 15 years. Prototype 5,127 was the success ... Failure is painful, but it spurs on improvement like nothing else.

Every great improvement has come after repeated failures. Virtually nothing comes out right the first time. Failures, repeated failures, are finger posts on the road to achievement. One fails forward toward success.

What is to be got at to make the air sweet, the ground good under the feet, can only be got at by failure, trial, again and again and again failure.

You win by trying. And failing. Test, try, fail, measure, evolve, repeat, persist.

99 percent of success is built on failure.

The value of experimentation is not the trying. It's the trying again after the experiment fails.

You don't have to get it perfect, you just have to get it going. Babies don't walk the first time they try, but eventually they get it right

If you don't get it the first time, back up and try it again.

The successful man will profit from his mistakes and try again in a different way.

Ever tried. Ever failed. No matter. Try Again. Fail again. Fail better.

Treat failure as a lesson on how not to approach achieving a goal, and then use that learning to improve your chances of success when you try again. Failure is only the end if you decide to stop.

Improvement at anything is based on thousands of tiny failures, and the magnitude of your success is based on how many times you've failed at something.

If anything is worth trying at all, it's worth trying at least 10 times.

We Don't always succeed in what we try, certainly not by the world's standards, but I think you'll find it's the willingness to keep trying that matters most.

Failure is success training.

A really important part of competition is coming back, trying to do it better the second time than you did the first.

The only road to good shows is bad ones. Just go start having a bad time, and if you don't give up, you will get better.

No matter how many mistakes you make or how slow you progress, you are still way ahead of everyone who isn't trying.

You cannot be successful without failure.

Each failure to sell will increase your chances for success at your next attempt.

All great success is preceded by failure.

Many of the projects that we do that appear quite successful, it's actually often the second or third time we've given it a try.

Mistakes are the stepping stones to success.

Failures, repeated failures, are sign-posts on the road to achievement. The only time you don't want to fail is the last time you try something (and it works).

It is so important for me to try, and having tried I look back on failure and success as if it were all the same.